The story of the unlikely saviour of many Jews in Cracow, Oskar Schindler, a Sudetan German Running his business and dabbling in the black market in order to keep his mistresses in the style to which he had accustomed them, he became the champion of those Jews lucky enough to come within his orbit He walked a tightrope between the Nazi officials and Jewish contacts which led him even to the gates of Auschwitz to save his chosen people